This article is riddled with links, since it contains quite a complex matter of how humans experience reality and whatever it intends to mean. Reality is a simulation. Physics, neuroscience, and mathematics all point to the same conclusion: you are inside a constructed system, designed to be invisible from within. Matter does not exist until observed. Your brain deletes 99.9% of incoming data before you see anything. Your memories rewrite themselves every time you recall them. The double slit experiment proved particles choose a state only when measured. The quantum eraser proved that erasing information is capable of reversing any choice you made. Wheeler's delayed choice experiment proved the present rewrites the past. The Planck length and Planck time reveal a universe with a minimum pixel and a fixed frame rate. The holographic principle proves three-dimensional space is projected from a flat surface. Many physical constants are fine-tuned to tolerances that cannot be explained by chance. Bostrom's simulation argument leaves no fourth option. Hoffman's fitness-beats-truth theorem proves evolution built your perception to hide reality, not reveal it. Gödel's two incompleteness theorems prove no system can fully describe itself from inside. The cage is real. The bars are mathematical. And you were built not to see them.
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| The brain receives 11 million data and shows us imagery based on only 4 million |
The above paragraph is information flooded and difficult to casually digest, but below are some examples that may give you some more insight to what is contained in the previous paragraph. It loosely reflects a part of a Youtube video that contains in its description that there is some sort of a code behind the way in which humans experience reality, which completely is NOT what most of us tend to think. It utterly destroys the old saying 'Seeing is believing' beyond repair. That was coined by someone that was unaware of the way the human brain works or by one that actually does, but wants human beings to remain separated from what actually goes on in mankind's skull. Both are assumptions of course, but assumptions may rank among the most dangerous cerebral activities that have the potential to misinterpret what goes on around and inside us for reasons that may go all the way back to the Gnostic lore of old days. And even those texts have no direct relation to what advanced and fringe have unveiled. So, here we go:
Karl Friston conceived the Predictive Coding perspective while being in the University College London in 2006. Research subjects were shown basket ball players passing the ball and were asked how many passes they gave. Then they were shown the same videos, but in the middle of them a man dressed in a gorilla suit appeared for 9 seconds that beat his chest and then disappeared. None of the test subjects recalled seeing the gorilla. It was as if the brain said: I already know this and erased the gorilla. The brain deletes what it does not consider to be significant and those data are not stored in memory. That literally shapes our opinion about reality, which may significantly differ from what scientists actually measure. On average 11 million signals received y the retina of which 4 million are processed; the brain filters out more than half of the data that enters the brain! The difference is constructed by what the brain expects and what it has got.....
Information on the 'Rubber Hand Illusion', which appears to be the actual topic related to these types of neurological experiments. Here are the key points regarding that phenomenon: What it is: The Rubber Hand Illusion is a classic experiment used in neuroscience to study body ownership. It demonstrates how easily the brain’s perception of the body can be manipulated.
The Procedure: A participant’s real hand is hidden from view while a realistic, fake rubber hand is placed in front of them. The researcher then strokes both the hidden real hand and the visible fake hand simultaneously.
The Brain's Reaction: Because the visual input (seeing the fake hand being touched) matches the tactile sensation (feeling the touch on the real hand), the brain often becomes convinced that the rubber hand is actually part of the person's own body.
Physical Consequences: Some research indicates that this illusion is so potent that it can cause measurable physiological changes, such as a drop in the temperature of the participant's real, hidden hand.
Significance: This experiment serves as a way for scientists to explore the "malleability" of our sense of self and how visual capture works in the human brain.
Following up on this experiment, in Denmark a plastic mannequin was shown and an observer who saw it. The brain does not distinguish between who a person is and what is shown to him. What was done to the mannequin the observer felt and became aware of. The brain makes no distinction. The part - the hand - or - the entire body - the mannequin makes no difference; the brain processes reality and the test person can not distinguish between who (s)he is and what (s)he sees happening to the outside mannequin subject that undergoes imposed actions to the separate subject. The brain does not only process what we see, but also influences our decisions. 'Seeing is believing' depends on how and for what reason the brain processes reality and hence what we decide.
In an fMRI scan research conducted by John-Dylan Hayne in which it was measured that the prefrontal motor cortex prepared actions up to 15 seconds (!) before they were carried out by the research subject. The fact occurred after the choice was made, leading to the question who or what did in fact make the choice? Supposedly the brain decides when to act or not. The latter can delay or put off the motion, which means humans have the capacity to veto a brain induced action, that the brain has prepared. The brain always processes to make a decision, but the veto is an option that people have. This thin sliver of intervention is our only option to block the preparatory processing of the brain, that is generated by the brain as well. But to arrive at the decision to veto people have to make use of their brain as well, regardless if the decision to veto was triggered by a logical or intuition driven impulse.
Libet made the subjects jump off a virtual 30 metre elevation to find out if they were able to say how long they felt an experience lasted. In their fear induced fall that lasted 3 seconds, they recalled it lasted 8 seconds as if time slowed down in the density of the moment of overwhelming fear. But those merely were their feelings, because time did not slow down. What they felt during the research has caused them to recall that it took more time than the event actually did. So, the time we feel, is not the amount of time it took for an event to end. The brain can assign a much longer (or shorter) time to experienced events or even completely erase them, including the length of time for them to occur, from memory. What is left is our processed recollection stored in our brain of what took place and how long events lasted, that may affect our decision making.
I will leave it at this, since there are a shedload of experiments that show that what humans think that happened, is an image processed by the brain, in which events are increased or decreased in time or erased from memory. In addition the information that is contained in the links on this page require enough time to absorb. But remember, what you think you see, is not what you get most of the time. The brain processing filter is able to alter whatever we think we observe. Reality is as fluent as linear / cyclical time is and for that matter every parameter known in physics. We can only be absolutely certain of the fact that nothing is certain, not just as a result of the human brain's activity, but also as the fluency of the quantum field that includes every possibility existing up to an extent that lies far beyond the scope of human beings to understand.